Harold J. Laski: “And only respect for freedom can give final beauty to men’s lives.”

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.